

“I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?”
― How Music Works
― How Music Works

“Everything imaginable had been done or tried out there. It wasn't the feeling you had looking out on his own land. In Australia, you looked out and saw the possible, the spaces, the maybes...”
― The Riders
― The Riders

“You are totally at the mercy of nature in this country, mate. It's just a fact of life.”
― In a Sunburned Country
― In a Sunburned Country

“No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore

“Invisible magpies warbled in the plane trees. Softly, gently, never running out of melodic ideas, they perched among the leaves and spun out their endless tales.”
― Joe Cinque's Consolation: A True Story of Death, Grief and the Law
― Joe Cinque's Consolation: A True Story of Death, Grief and the Law
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